The call for tough arms controls: Voices from Sierra Leone
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January 2006 Fighting began in Sierra Leone in March 1991, when a small number of rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) crossed the border from Liberia and began attacking civilians.
By the time the war was declared over, tens of thousands had been killed out of a population of five million, thousands had been mutilated or raped, and an estimated 10,000 children had been abducted to be child soldiers.
Up to two-thirds of the population had been displaced from their homes, and another 600,000 had fled the country.
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